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Five giant dead fish appear in Moskva river
7 Jun, 06:03 PM
Maintenance staff of the Moscow sluice have found five one-meter long (3,3 feet) giant fish, which were washed ashore by the Moskva-river embankment, Russian website Life.ru reports.
Ecologists and police summoned to investigate suppose the phenomenon could have been caused by the high concentration of nitrate nitrogen in the water.
Recent measurements have shown the maximum acceptable concentration level of this chemical has been exceeded 66 times in the vicinity of the Moscow oilprocessing plant.
"Even a 40 centimeter-long (16-inch long) fish is a rare catch in the Moskva river, to say nothing of fish of greater size," ecologists say. "Meter-long species are utter nonsense in this water zone," they say confidently.
A commercial company could have ditched the dead fish into the river, and they could have been washed over to the south of Moscow by the tide, experts say.
The investigation is still under way, and it may be too early to make any assumptions yet.
Multiple tests of the mysterious and alarming finding will be conducted to establish not only the origin of the weird fish, but also the cause of their death in the Moskva river basin.
